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Education
Justus Liebig University of Gießen (Gießen, Ger) 09/2018-03/2021
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat) summa cum laude (with distinction)
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Andreas Vilcinskas
Technical University of Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Ger) 04/2016-08/2018
Master of Science in Biology (major in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Genetics)
Supervision: Prof.Dr. Sebastian Steinfartz and Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences
Technical University of Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Ger) 10/2012-04/2016
Bachelor of Science in Biology
Supervision: Prof.Dr. Sebastian Steinfartz and Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences
Heubach GmbH (Langelsheim, Ger) 08/2008-01/2012
Apprenticeship to Chemical Laboratory Assistant
IHK certified
Robert Bosch Comprehensive School (Hildesheim, Ger) 07/2008
Abitur (major in Biology, Chemistry and History)
Participation in “Jugend Forscht”
Academic Positions
LOEWE-Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (Frankfurt a. M., Ger) 01/2023-Current
Project Area Speaker for Natural Product Genomics
Steering Committee Member (since 2021)
Justus Liebig University of Gießen (Gießen, Ger) 04/2022-Current
Lecturer (“unbezahlter Lehrauftrag”)
Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Dept. for Applied Entomology
Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Gießen, Ger) 04/2021-Current
Junior Research Group Leader
Animal Venomics Lab
LOEWE-Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (Frankfurt a. M., Ger) 09/2018-12/2022
Research Associate
Section Natural Product Genomics
Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Gießen, Ger) 09/2018-03/2021
PhD Student
Department for Bioresources
Technical University of Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Ger) 04/2015-08/2018
Student Assistant
Zoological Institute, Department for Evolutionary Biology (AG Vences)
Heubach GmbH (Langelsheim, Ger) 02/2012-09/2012
Chemical Laboratory Assistant
Competitive Funding and Grants
Individual Proposal 505696476 (Funktionsvenomik der Kreuzotter (Vipera berus) in Deutschland) 2022
German Research Foundation (DFG) €219.400
Publication Fonds 2020
Fraunhofer Society €1600
Travel Grant 2019
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) €2600
Travel Grant 2019
German Embassy of Ecuador €1500
Young Researcher Grant (Untersuchungen zur Vogelspinnenevolution mittels Phylogenomik) 2017
German Arachnological Society (DeArGe) €1800
Scientific Awards
Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral Thesis of the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen 2021
Board Memberships
Works Council Member of Fraunhofer IME-BR 2022-Current
Steering Committee Member of the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics 2021-Current
Substitute Management Committee Member for Germany in EU COST action “European Venom Network” 2020-2021
Second Chairman of the German Arachnological Society 2019-Current
Service as Editor
Topical Advisory Board for Section Animal Venoms 2023-Current
Toxins
Associate Editor 2021-Current
Physiological Entomology
Review Editor 2021-Current
Frontiers in Pharmacology
Conference Chairing
21st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Abu Dhabi, UAE) 18/10/2022
ECR Session 1 “Basic Toxinology”
Deutscher Herpetologentag 2022 (Berlin, Ger) 29/09/2022
Kreuzotter Symposium
Service as Reviewer
Communications Biology, Chemoecology, Diversity, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; International Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Salamandra, Scientific Reports, Toxins, Toxicon, Toxicon:X, Toxin Reviews, Zoological Research.
Participation on Symposia and Congresses
GfG summer meeting 2016 – Adaption in nature – from ecology to genomes (Braunschweig, 2016); Spring meeting 2018 of the ZAG Wirbellose (Halle, 2018); Arachnoweekend 2018 of the DeArGe (Hessisch Lichtenau, 2018); Deutscher Herpetologentag 2018 of the DGHT (Magdeburg, 2018); INSECTA 2018 (Gießen, 2018); Recombinant Protein Production 10 of the European Federation of Biotechnology (Hersonissos, Greece 2019); 2nd Congresso Latinoamericano de Biogeografia and Humboldt 250 Conference (Quito, Ecuador 2019); 20st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Buenos Aires, Argentina 2019), Bioengineering of Toxins 2019 of the SFET (Paris, France 2019); Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2020 of the Swiss Chemical Society (Covid19 caused online conference, 2020); Arachnoweekend 2021 of the DeArGe (Covid19 caused online conference, 2021); Ento21 conference of the Royal Entomological Society (Covid19 caused online conference, 2021); International Toxin Talks 2021 (Covid19 caused online conference, 2021), INSECTA 2022 (Gießen, 2022), Deutscher Herpetologentag 2022 of the DGHT (Berlin, 2022), 21st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2022).
Memberships in Scientific Associations
German Society for Arachnology (DeArGe), International Society on Toxinology (IST); European Federation of Biotechnology, German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture (DGHT).